Balkanization of vaccine policy raises concerns about vaccine uptake, insurance coverage, experts warn
The U.S. may be headed for a “choose your own adventure” approach to vaccine policy, in which skeptical parents follow the guidelines that confirm their beliefs.
For decades, when health care providers in the United States made decisions about who among their patients should be vaccinated against which diseases and when, they knew where to look: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which itself had been advised by a panel of independent experts, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Those days, at least for now, may be coming to an end.
